ABSTRACT
Analysis ................................................................................................................ 345 19.7Future Directions ...............................................................................................................345 19.8Concluding Remarks .........................................................................................................346 Questions ......................................................................................................................................347 References .....................................................................................................................................347
Mobile health-care system (MHS) utilizes emerging mobile communication and network technologies used speci€cally for the delivery of biomedical data anytime from anywhere. One of the main concerns of MHS is adoption with new technologies. Since there are various cultures along with different distinguished boundaries, MHS users will behave inconsistently in order to accept the new technologies. In line with this, it is tried to examine cultural effects on the acceptance of MHS and compare it with some other user’s characters such as age and gender. In this regard, uncertainty avoidance (UA), which is one of the dimensions of national culture that was provided by Hofstede, has been used to detect the in°uence of culture on the acceptance of MHS. For this purpose, a survey questionnaire was distributed among smartphone users in three countries including Iran, Malaysia, and America among developing and developed countries to determine users’ behavior with different national culture backgrounds in interaction with MHS. Trust and anxiety are used as user acceptance factors in order to check whether UA has a signi€cant relationship with user acceptance or not. In addition to descriptive analysis, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) is applied to verify the in°uence of national culture on trust and anxiety. If culture plays a signi€cant role in the process of the acceptation, MHS providers can use this information to evade culturally related problems for future projects.
